Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…

did the cat get the parrot's point, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, parrot · What happens: get, point · To what, where: point

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 154 «Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bull, a parrot scolds a cat, a stag and a sick man get their comeuppance» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 parrot	case
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 get	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the cat	the parrot's point					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent point=Beneficiary what=Theme
2	point		the parrot						nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

yeah, she got the point but ignored it and just kept on sleeping by the fire, innit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ignored	cc
8	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ignored	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 kept	advmod
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ignored	conj
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 sleeping	mark
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kept	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
19	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	the point	innit obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer point=Stimulus
2	ignore	past	she not said here	point		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	keep	participle	she not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	gerund	she not said here		by the fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, she just hissed and walked off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hissed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hissed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 hissed	advmod
5	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hissed	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 walked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk off	past	she not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, she got told to shut her gob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shut	mark
7	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gob	nmod:poss
9	gob	gob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		she					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shut not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	her gob					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gob=Patient

Option 4

nah, she got told to shut her gob by the parrot, and then she went off in a huff

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shut	mark
7	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gob	nmod:poss
9	gob	gob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 parrot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parrot	det
12	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 went	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 huff	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 huff	det
21	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shut not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	her gob			by the parrot	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gob=Patient
3	go off	past	parrot		a huff	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in huff=Location

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